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Sep. 10, 2020 —People are starting almost all the wildfires that threaten US homes, according to an innovative new analysis combining housing and wildfire data. Through activities like debris burning, equipment use ...
Sep. 8, 2021 —Every summer, wildfires rage across the western U.S., and wildland firefighters are tasked with putting them out. But in the process, they inhale smoke and all the compounds in it, which can be ...
July 14, 2021 —Firefighters battling wildfires in the western United States use a variety of suppression tactics to get the flames under control. Prescribed burns, or controlled fires intentionally set to clear ...
Jan. 31, 2023 —A new conceptual framework for incorporating the way plants use carbon and water, or plant dynamics, into fine-scale computer models of wildland fire provides a critical first step toward improved ...
May 3, 2021 —In advance of a wildfire season projected to be among the worst, a new report calls for a unified federal response to wildfires that includes investment in research on smoke exposure and forecasting, ...
Jan. 27, 2021 —A new 3D analysis shows that wildland fires flare up in forests populated by similar-sized trees or checkerboarded by large clearings and slow down where trees are more ...
Nov. 1, 2022 —Wildfires may seem unpredictable, leaving random ruin in their wake. Engineers have now developed a model that can predict how wildfire will impact a community down to which buildings will burn. They ...
Jan. 18, 2023 —Seasonal temperature, moisture loss from plants and wind speed are what primarily drive fires that sweep across the same landscape multiple times, a new study reveals. These findings and others could ...
Mar. 12, 2021 —New research shows a fire suppressant, when combined with water, cuts the amount of time and water needed to extinguish peat fires by ...
May 3, 2021 —Volunteer firefighters -- who comprise more than 65 percent of the U.S. fire service -- have higher levels of 'forever chemicals,' per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in their ...